Iran Makes the Sciences A Part of Its Revolution

News Posted on 6/10/2008 11:07:41 AM

As Burton Richter, an American Nobel laureate in physics, entered the main auditorium of Tehran's prestigious Sharif University, hundreds of students rose to give him a loud and lengthy ovation. But Richter, wearing a white suit and leaning on a cane, said he was the one who should be awed. This Story Iran Makes the Sciences A Part of Its Revolution Baghdad Briefing Podcast: Maliki's Goals in Iran

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Pelosi Warns US about Consequences of War against Iran

News Posted on 5/19/2008 11:29:27 AM

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned Washington about the dire consequences it has to face in case of military attack against the Islamic Republic.

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Shaping a Nuclear Iran

News Posted on 5/19/2008 11:29:04 AM

As President Bush addressed the Israeli parliament last week, denouncing negotiations with recalcitrant regimes as the “false comfort of appeasement,” his diplomats, in conjunction with their European counterparts, offered Iran another incentive package to stop enriching uranium.

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Tehran ponders the spoils of victory

News Posted on 5/16/2008 11:52:43 AM

We were watching the news coming in from Beirut, as armed Hezbollah troopers stormed entire neighborhoods of Beirut, loyal to parliamentary majority leader Saad al-Hariri. The anchor for al-Manar, Hezbollah's TV station, was roaming the streets of Hamra, Ain Mraiseh and Quraytem, reporting on events from his party's perspective.

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Iranian embassy employees shot in Baghdad

News Posted on 5/16/2008 11:42:29 AM

Iranian Embassy employees and their driver were shot Thursday in a Baghdad incident that some reports said involved Iraqi troops.

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Saudis, US grapple with Iran challenge

News Posted on 5/16/2008 11:41:05 AM

A timeless and abstract passion, which could gain instantaneous contemporaneity and which has proven to be unfailingly useful for statecraft, was invoked in Middle Eastern politics once again this week. It is the ultimate weapon in Saudi Arabia's arsenal of regional diplomacy. It is seductive in its appeal, yet almost embarrassingly direct.

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Oil hits new high on Iran fears

News Posted on 5/13/2008 12:48:25 PM

Oil prices have hit a record just shy of $127 a barrel after Iran said it was studying a plan to cut crude output.

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U.N. and Iran hold talks on disputed nuclear work

News Posted on 5/12/2008 11:23:19 AM

Iran and the U.N. atomic watchdog began talks on Monday on the Islamic state's disputed nuclear program, which the West fears is a front to build weapons, the official IRNA news agency reported.

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Iran says to sue U.S., Britain over mosque blast

News Posted on 5/12/2008 11:19:50 AM

Iran's judiciary said on Monday it would file international lawsuits against the United States and Britain, accusing them of providing financial support to those behind a blast in a mosque that killed 14 people.

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Iran woos Farsi-speaking nations

News Posted on 5/10/2008 11:42:55 AM

There are many interrelated reasons why the United States policy of isolating Iran has failed, one being the prominent regional role played by Tehran that simultaneously relies on a net of bilateral, trilateral and multilateral arrangements. These are on the rise, irrespective of the nuclear standoff, sanctions and threats of military action against Iran.

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Iran Accuses U.S., Britain In Fatal Blast

News Posted on 5/9/2008 10:27:45 AM

Iran's Intelligence Ministry has accused the United States and Britain of involvement in an April 12 bomb attack at a religious center in the city of Shiraz that killed at least 12 people and wounded 202.

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US professor wants to represent Iran

News Posted on 5/9/2008 9:11:02 AM

A leading American professor of international law has voiced readiness to represent Iran in an international court on Israeli crimes.

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Iran offers nuclear deal but refuses to stop enrichment

News Posted on 5/8/2008 4:24:28 AM

Iran said yesterday that it is to present the international community with a new package of proposals aimed at breaking the diplomatic deadlock over the country's nuclear programme.

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Iran Halts Talks With U.S. on Iraq

News Posted on 5/6/2008 9:21:37 AM

As American strikes on Shiite fighters in Baghdad have widened, Iran has suspended talks with the United States on Iraqi security, with the Iranian Foreign Ministry on Monday citing the continued offensive as the reason.

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Doubting the Evidence Against Iran

News Posted on 5/6/2008 9:20:48 AM

American circles in Baghdad and Washington are probably not pleased with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's plan for a special panel to investigate allegations of Iranian interference in Iraq. Many U.S. officials are already convinced of the worst and, for years, U.S. officials have now aired accusations against Iran, insisting that Tehran is stoking Iraq's violence by keeping up a flow of money, weapons and trained fighters into the country. The Iraqi government, however, remains unconvinced — with good reason.

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"OBLITERATE" IRAN? A REAL THREAT OR SIMPLY MEANINGLESS JARGON?

News Posted on 5/6/2008 9:19:21 AM

Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton may be a lot of things, some not so complementary; but one thing she is not, she is definitely not stupid. This, of course, is true of the rest of them, as well.

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Obama attacks Clinton over Iran

News Posted on 5/5/2008 2:34:16 PM

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has criticised his rival Hillary Clinton for her stance on Iran as "sabre-rattling".

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Iran moving into the big league

News Posted on 5/2/2008 12:25:04 PM

Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's three-nation tour of Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India and the welter of agreements and understandings reached between Tehran and these governments serve notice beyond the mere issue of energy security and Iran's expanding role in the sub-continent's energy market; rather, these developments signify a new stage in Iran's foreign policy that is best described as "pan-regionalism".

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India raises a toast to Iran

News Posted on 5/1/2008 10:21:15 AM

The one-day visit this week of President Mahmud Ahmadinejad, the first Iranian head of state to visit India in five years, was short in time, but it was high in symbolic content and laid bare some of New Delhi's strategic thinking.

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U.S. terror report cites Venezuela, Iran

News Posted on 5/1/2008 10:20:09 AM

Venezuela's associations with terror states, Iran's meddling in Iraq and the resurgence of al Qaeda in Afghanistan top the concerns in a new State Department report on terrorism threats in countries around the world.

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Gates: New U.S. carrier in Gulf a reminder to Iran

News Posted on 4/30/2008 10:53:18 AM

The U.S. Navy has temporarily added a second aircraft carrier in the Gulf as a "reminder" to Iran, but this was not an escalation of American forces in the region, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Tuesday.

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Iran boosts Sri Lankan refinery

News Posted on 4/29/2008 10:25:56 AM

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has inaugurated a project to boost Sri Lanka's oil refining capacity during a brief visit to the country.

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Exclusive interview with Alaeddin Boroujerdi

News Posted on 4/29/2008 9:43:23 AM

The following is the transcript of Press TV's exclusive interview with Alaeddin Boroujerdi, the head of Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission

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Iran says Iraq situation makes U.S. attack unlikely

News Posted on 4/28/2008 11:38:50 AM

Iran said on Sunday a "disastrous situation" facing the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan coupled with Washington's domestic issues made any U.S. attack on the Islamic Republic unlikely.

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Iran steps into enemy's territory

News Posted on 4/28/2008 11:32:31 AM

This week, with his three-nation tour of Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India, Iran's President Mahmud Ahmadinejad will fortify Iran's regional ties and thus achieve a milestone in his administration's "Look East" foreign policy orientation.

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